AS the year rolls to an end, it is important for us, both as individuals and as a country, to look back, down the road we have travelled and take stocks. As a country, we are bleeding on all fronts. Our history is stained with blood, strewn with the debris of our mistakes and regrets. […]

THERE is no doubt that Nigerians are now buffeted from all flanks. Wherever the people turn to, avoidable death lurks in the corner. For instance, if one was lucky to escape from the criminals prowling the land, or from trigger-happy men in uniforms, one may not be so lucky with containers falling from articulated vehicles, […]

KNOWN as the dancing senator, and now sworn in as governor of Osun State, some people, especially on the social media, have advised Ademola Adeleke to leave dancing and get serious with governing Osun and improving the economic condition of the ninth smallest state in area and nineteenth most populous with an estimated population of […]

GIVEN that Jesus Christ, the Biblically-acclaimed saviour of mankind, is the reason for the annual season of Christmas that climaxes this year on Sunday, December 25, 2022, humanity must not lose sight of the fact that love is the overriding attribute of the person whose birth in the world is being celebrated. Christ’s abundant love […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s indirect admission in faraway Washington DC of how difficult it has been administering Nigeria in the face of numerous challenges confronting the country is both sobering and instructive for all Nigerians, especially for the electorate in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.    The President, whose supporters had always either spuriously claimed he had […]

ON September 28, 2022, the campaigns for the elections formally went into full swing, according to the timetable of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Already, some of the serious 18 registered political parties have flagged off their campaigns. We are, however, disturbed at the use of unprintable words by some political parties and candidates […]

FOR the umpteenth time, our judicial officers are lamenting the deluge of cases pending before our courts, the gross inadequacy of judges and lack of needed financial resources to dispose the cases. The latest outcry came recently from the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, who disclosed that some judges have […]

THE 15th session of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference, COP15, which began December 7 and ends today December 19, 2022, in Montreal, Canada, is a continuation of the quest by the caring world to halt the ongoing rapid loss of earth’s diverse plant and animal life, called biodiversity – the sum of all living things […]

GRADUALLY, the Federal Government is building up the hope of the Nigerian people towards the 2023 general elections. More Nigerians have come to see the possibility of an election in which their choices at the polls will be respected. Since he signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill after a protracted battle of wits, President Muhammadu […]

FROM today, Thursday December 15, 2022 to January 15, 2023, Nigerians travelling to the Eastern parts of the country will have the rare and exciting privilege of riding on the brand new Second Niger Bridge. The Federal Government declared this bonanza to eastward travellers as a Christmas package. According to the Minister of Works and […]

AS the President Muhammadu Buhari government gradually winds down, there is a growing trend among its highly-placed officials to defy laws put in place in the Constitution to ensure accountability. First, it was the refusal of the Chiefs of the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to […]

THE Federal Government has, at last, yielded to calls by well-meaning Nigerians to investigate the crude oil theft which has left our economy haggard, despite the oil boom that other oil-producing economies experience. The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, had in October this year, prevailed on the Federal Government to institute a Judicial Panel of […]

NIGERIAN youths, especially those graduating from institutions of higher learning, do not need to be warned or reminded that the days of automatic white-collar employment opportunities are gone. The Acting Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Christy Uba, reiterated this reality at the swearing-in of Batch “C” Stream II Corps members throughout […]

THE National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD’s, recent alarm of a looming mass migration of no less than 4,000 of its members in the nearest future should call for an emergency meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government with the medical service unions to discuss the stoppage of such a haemorrhage. But, of course, no such […]

THERE is an epidemic of vandalism and theft of school furnishings in Akwa Ibom State. It has been going on for quite a while, and the state government appears powerless to stop it. In March 2022, Government Primary School, Aka Offot in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, was serially vandalised and its roofing sheets, wash hand basins, […]